Eat Your Peas Mini-books resource cover. Focus on daily routines or fun items/places in the story. Includes 4 variations within each mini-book set. Engaging and interactive activities bring the story to life.

Engaging and effective Eat your Peas Mini-books

Engage your ESL young learners with story, places and daily routine language with Eat your Peas mini-books. A whole book from just one sheet of paper!

♦ See the excitement from making a whole book from one sheet of paper.

♦ Ideal for practising sequencing skills and at the same time consolidating language from the story.

♦ Easy to cater to different abilities and skills focus, including literacy skills with 4 different templates in each set.

♦ A fun and interactive way to incorporate story retelling, and bring English outside the classroom.

Ready for some Eat your Peas mini-books magic? Get your templates and lesson ideas here:

What will my ESL young learners learn?

This mini-book craft is ideal for helping your esl young learners acquire useful phrases, daily routines and place vocabulary. You can also give them exposure to conditional structures without explicitly focusing on them.

Using their sequencing skills, they’ll create those all important connections between the language and the story too.

The choice of templates let’s you focus on all 4 skills, or focus in on one in particular.

Don’t forget the valuable classroom language you’ll be helping them learn. See a summary below:

Mini-book set 1 – Daily Routines

If you eat your peas, you don’t have to…

go to bed
go to school
wash your face
brush your hair
go to bed
go to school
wash your face

Mini-book set 2 – Fun things/places

If you eat your peas, you can have…

pudding
a new bike
a chocolate factory
a zoo
an amusement park
a swimming pool
a space rocket

Classroom language

Where’s the…? It’s here. It’s there. Is it…? Yes, it is. No, it isn’t. What is it? It’s a.. It’s…

This one? What’s next? What comes after…?

Can you find the…? I can see a… Can I have..? Here you are. Thank you. You’re welcome. Colours, crayons, pens, pencils, glue, scissors. Fold, colour, stick, collect. I’m finished.

What do teachers say about the resources?

Wow! I used this resource for one of my labs and it has been explosive. Children were super excited and of course, I was as well! Nothing to complain about! Great work!

I have recently started to use storytelling in my classes and ESL labs. Fiona’s resources are a real treasure. Lots of useful tips and ready-to-use material to bring the story to life and help kids use the language. Excellent, couldn’t ask for more.

The resources were great and saved me so much time, the teaching tips gave me ideas. We had a lot of fun with it : the kids loved the activities, learnt the animals and movements and understood the story. And I feel like there is so much more I could have done. Thank you !

I found this resources few weeks ago and now I’m always have a look first on this web. The range of activities are awesome!

I love the resources and the kids seemed to enjoy too. I had a hard time today with a mixed-age group (from 6 to 14!), but the abundance of differentiated activities Fiona offers made it much easier for me to make the time spent together meaningful.

Most importantly, my students really enjoyed the process of making their own mini book. It also served as an assessment, as I was able to see clearly which students were having issues with reading and matching – but it didn’t feel like an exam or test for the students at all. I only wish I’d found this at the beginning of the academic year.

Frequently asked questions

Can't I just make these resources myself for nothing?

Yes, of course! Maybe you have the time and enjoy creating things, but it has to be said that being a young learner teacher can involve a HUGE amount of extra work making materials. Give yourself a break!

How do I know these materials will work?

All my materials have been tried and tested in the classroom. As well as having almost 20 years of teaching experience, I am also a qualified trainer for the Trinity TYLEC (Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate), so you can rely on the quality.

I'm teaching mixed aged groups. Will these materials work?

Yes! They work great for mixed aged groups and different abilities because they come with different templates AND different suggestions with how to use the resource. No time wasted on adapting different worksheets!

I need a ready to go lesson plan. Can I use this?

The provided activity suggestions for pre, during and after the craft give you all the steps you need to create a fun and engaging lesson for your young learners. I’d recommend adding in telling the story and a game or song and you’re sorted.

Wouldn't it be easier to just do a worksheet?

You can certainly find some free worksheets out there, but I can guarantee your young learners will be much more excited to create this. Engaged and motivated children make for a happy lesson (and teacher!)

Once you’ve had a chance to use your materials, don’t forget to come back to leave a review. As a thank you, you’ll receive a 20% discount on any other resource : )

Eat Your Peas Mini-books